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He's here. He's here.

Now broadcasting from the underground command post.

Deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-distrib building.

We've once again made contact with our leader, Mike. Love them.

Welcome, it is the Markov and Chobin Ferguson, filling in for the great one, Happy New Year.

He will be back with you in a couple of days, and I'll be holding on the fort today.

So, rarely, and I brought this in, can Mr. Producer, can you hear this?

You can hear that. You know what that is, don't you?

That is something that's going extinct, an actual newspaper.

A real one. I have a real newspaper. I get newspapers about once a year now, usually on New Years,

because I want to see what the newspapers say about the last year.

So today, I decide to look at a couple of newspapers.

I was looking at the Wall Street Journal, and just seeing kind of what they had to report,

and what they had to say about the New Year moving forward.

I look at the Wall Street Journal, looking at a couple of local newspapers as well.

And what I realize looking at these newspapers is, and friends, you know, this shows national.

So all over the country, what I'm about to say is going to offend some of you.

It has not been on purpose. I'm just stating the facts here.

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